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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Sabudana kheer - MahaShivRatri Special

I wish you all a Happy Mahashivratri . Mahashivaratri
Festival or the ‘The Night of Shiva’ is celebrated with devotion and in honor of Lord Shiva, one of the deities of
Hindu Trinity. People perform ritual worship of Shiva Lingam to appease Lord
Shiva. It is also Believed that While married women pray for the well being of
their husbands unmarried women pray for a husband like Lord Shiva, who is
regarded as the ideal husband. (Source: http://www.jyotirlingas.com/festival-lord-shiva.html).

As a offering to god, I prepared sabudana kheer.
Sabudana are the topioca pearls and its pudding or kheer is prepared on many
religious occasion. So let see the recipe

INGREDIENTS

Sabudana or tapioca -
1/4 cup

Milk - 3 cups milk

Condensed milk – ½ tin
( can be replaced with ½ cup of sugar)

Big pinch of saffron strands

Cardamom powder -1 /2 tsp

Charoli or chironji – ¼ cup

Silvered almonds – 2 tbsp

Ghee – 1tsp

PREPARATION

Wash the tapioca pearls or sabudana and soak them in water
pearls for 10 minutes and drain them. Keep
it aside for about 15 -20
minutes.

In a thick bottomed pot, bring the milk to boil. Stir the
milk continuously to prevent it from sticking at the bottom of the pot.

Add sabudana into the milk and cook till the sabudana plump
and becomes soft. You can also check the sabudana by pressing them in between
your fingers.

Mix in condensed milk, cardamom powder and saffron to the
milk.

Meanwhile also fry the dry fruits and add them into the kheer.
Simmer the kheer for 10 minutes while constantly stirring. Switch off the heat
and cool for a while and pudding is ready to serve.